Book Title: Imagines elegantissimae : quae multum lucis ad intelligendus doctrinae Christianae locos adferre possunt, Collectae, partim ex praelectionibus Domini Philippi Melanthonis, partim ex scriptis Partrum / a Iohanne Cogelero, Verbi diuini ministro Stetini ; cum praefatione D. Georgij Maioris

Author: Cogelerus, Johannes, fl. 1558-1588

Image Title: Beginning of section on good works

Description: Beginning of Locus Pt. 8 - De Bonis Operibus. Christ sits in clouds with a sword and an Easter lily on either side of his head and two angels sounding trumpets. Below is a Garden of Eden scene with Adam, Eve, the serpent, and the tree; and with their tents in the background, Israelites are gathered near the bronze serpent on a cross. Below is a scene with flames rising from the jaws of hell, as Death (in the form of a skeleton) and the Devil drive a naked man toward the jaws, where the Pope, a monk, and another man already find themselves. Standing under a barren tree nearby and looking on are two men with Moses, stone tablets in hand..

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